Mike S wrote:
On 6/29/2018 11:05 PM, fnot wrote:
On 6/28/2018 5:45 PM, Boris wrote:
My daughter called me about this yesterday.
She has a 2009-2010 iMac running Snow Leopard. Well, it was running,
but
about five years ago, the thing would not fire up, nothing, no sound
of a
spinning hard drive, no video on monitor, nothing. It was like it was
not plugged in. She took it to the Apple geniuses, who told her her the
motherboard must be dead, so she put it on the shelf circa 2013. It was
out of warranty.
She now wants to get some files, mostly pics/videos, from the hard
drive.
With the help of google, she managed to remove the hard drive. It's a
2.5" 500GB Seagate SATA. She connected it to my adapter/converter
cable,
similar to this one
https://www.amazon.com/Generic-Adapt...erter-Optical-
External/dp/B002OV1VJW
and to her Win10 HP laptop. The drive spun up, but nothing popped up on
her screen. According to this article:
https://www.howtogeek.com/252111/how...ed-drive-on-a-
windows-pc/
she was expecting to get something like do you want to format this
drive?
She also tried connecting to a Win7 machine, but no luck there, either.
She has not yet installed HFS+/HFSExplorer. She is going to wait
until I
can help (tomorrow). But, if we are able to access the Apple hard
drive,
can we move files to a Windows PC, and also open them?
Thanks.
It's been ages since I did this. Live Linux boot with HD attached.
Copy files.
I remember it only grabbed common types of files ie. doc, jpg, pdf, etc.
I'll look into my archived notes...
Looks like you're on the right track.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways...drive-windows/
The first step, is deciding whether it's HFS+ or APFS.
The file system layout of APFS has a couple text strings.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile...ication_detail
NXSB
APSB
I'd start with a hex editor such as HxD and
check it out. HxD has a "raw disk" menu item
for jobs like this (when it is run as Administrator).
HxD can search for text strings at 600MB/sec
(if the disk can keep up).
https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
Or "disktype" is a good utility, but a nuisance
to get ahold of. (The one I use is a Cygwin version,
an EXE and two DLLs.)
On the older disks, the nineth partition is
typically "Macintosh HD". And "disktype" can tell
you that. Before "disktype" came along, I had
to try them one at a time until I found it.
Paul